Peg Bracken - Women Quotes

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Some women, it is said, like to cook.This book is not for them.This book is for those of us who hate to, who have learned, through hard experience, that some activities become no less painful through repetition: childbearing, paying taxes, cooking. This book is for those of us who want to fold our big dishwater hands around a dry Martini instead of a wet flounder, come the end of a long day.

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The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be.

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As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

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Everything from television to fashion ads has made it seem wicked to cast a shadow. This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a machine shop.

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